All it took was 20 minutes for Dell shareholders to ratify the $24.8bn buy-out by its Silver Lake-backed eponymous founder, some 7 months after the bid was formally announced (see here). Michael Dell then committed to take the privatised company “back to our roots”.
One assumes, then, that the first ‘branch’ to be lopped will be the ex-PerotSystems outsourcing and application services unit, which had absolutely no buisness being there in the first place. This will be closely followed by the deforestation of raft of daftly expensive infrastructure management software acquisitions (e.g. see here) which would surely have been better transplanted to the likes of, say, CA Technologies (see here).
It’s great to know that Dell will be in safe hands (and you can read that any way you want!).